Description: Network with industry professionals throughout the day. Gain experience in presenting and listening to “lightning talks” and poster presentation. Talk with company and organization representatives at the lunchtime Knowledge Network tables. For more information click HERE.

SoCal URISA supported Los Angeles County at their GIS Day event. Several presentations, posters, vendor, and students attended to learn more about GIS activities at the County.

7/27/15 – SoCal URISA Social Event at the ESRI UC in San Diego

This year the event was held at The Blind Burro in downtown San Diego. It took place during the ESRI UC so of course it brings in so many of our members. We all had a blast with good food, drinks and socializing with friends.Here are a few photos:

SANDAG, The San Diego Regional GIS Council, and SoCal URISA all cohost this map contest, this year the digital submissions over ran the posters! Every year during the ESRI Users Conference we co-host the awards, attracting local GIS users to submit their San Diego area maps. Here are the winners and some photos:

Members and friends got together during the Users Conference and enjoyed the sights, scenery and of course good food and craft beers at Southpaw Social Club by Petco Park in downtown San Diego. This is an annual event we host for members and it is always a blast.

6/28/14 – Open Source Workshop

SoCal URISA hosted an Open Source workshop at Palomar College GIS lab with Jeff Johnson formally of Boundless. We took a look at the tools offered from QGIS on the desktop to GeoServer and PostGIS along with the web application framwork ised to deliver applications using these services on the web. For more information on the training materials from this workshop visit these links.